Saturday, August 25, 2018

You know how in an instant your life can change and your world can be turned upside-down, that's what happened to when a suicide bomber detonated a device following Ariana Grande'sDangerous Woman Tour concert at the Manchester Arena in the U.K. on May 22, 2017.

Twenty-two people died in the attack, over a hundred concert-goers were wounded, mostly children there to see their favourite pop star, and many were left traumatised by the experience.

The singer has openly admitted that the tragic event has left her with PTSD, but she's channeled her anxiety and emotions to create her art and her fourth album, Sweetener.

In April Ariana released her new single, 'No tears left to cry', with this clever upside-down billboard snapped above West Hollywood's Sunset Strip on April 20, and this August she's dropped her new record and this Sweetener album billboard from streaming service Spotify was spied above Santa Monica Boulevard on August 22, 2018.

Concert arenas, theaters and performance spaces should be safe places to enjoy music and the arts, so let's hope Ariana Grande's new tracks, like 'God is a woman', 'The light is coming' and 'Get well soon' can help heal, illuminate and empower her listeners.

UPDATED: Here's also a Spotify billboard for Ariana Grande's fifth studio album, Thank U, Next, spotted at the intersection of Melrose and Fairfax Avenues on February 8, 2019.
Plus here's a Memoji-themed billboard from Apple Music for Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal, which she won, snapped along the Sunset Strip on February 11, 2019.
And here's another upside-down ad creative for Thank U, Next spotted above Santa Monica Boulevard the same day.
And yet another pink-hued billboard for the new album spied high over the Sunset Strip.